As US public companies launch into the height of the annual meeting season, we review the current landscape on say-on-pay, including current vote levels and a summary of companies with fa...

Davis Polk is pleased to announce the second installment of the Davis Polk Dodd-Frank Rulemaking Progress Report. This month’s presentation visually illustrates the regulatory burden im...

On April 29, 2011, the United States Department of the Treasury issued a proposed determination that would exempt foreign exchange (“FX”) swaps and forwards from the definition of “...

Today is the deadline for comments in response to the SEC’s proposed rules directing the national securities exchanges to adopt listing standards relating to the independence of compens...

The SEC has just extended the deadline for comments in response to its proposed rules directing the national securities exchanges to adopt listing standards regarding the independence of ...

Perhaps the onset of warmer weather has made us aware of the approach of July 21st, an auspicious date representing the one-year anniversary of the Dodd-Frank Act and also the statutory d...

There continue to be multiple areas of legislative activity to repeal or amend certain provisions of Dodd-Frank, including draft legislation to require employees to communicate internally...

We’re up to nine failed say-on-pay votes so far for the year. We’ll provide a client communication shortly on the latest state of play in the say-on-pay world, including the reasons r...

Notwithstanding the proliferation of advance notice bylaws, floor resolutions at annual meetings are fairly unusual. In January, Walden Asset Management and 44 other investors contacted o...

We are pleased to announce the publication of a Davis Polk and McKinsey & Co. co-authored whitepaper, Credible Living Wills: The First Generation. This unique collaboration combines a leg...